Chapter 769 - 525: The True "Star" and the Divine Artifact’s Self-Destruction
Chapter 769: Chapter 525: The True "Star" and the Divine Artifact’s Self-Destruction
The toxic breath, potent enough to corrode space itself, was instantly vaporized.
The frigid current, powerful enough to freeze the very Law, turned into simple water vapor the moment it touched the fiery clouds.
The sky-rending storm was incinerated by the immense heat.
The light-bending force field failed to cause even the slightest deviation in the Star’s trajectory.
Like moths to a flame.
Immediately after,
came the four Demon Serpent Avatars that had soared up to defy the heavens.
Their massive bodies plunged headfirst into the Star.
The moment they made contact with the Star’s main body, their colossal, kilometer-long forms violently self-destructed.
The immense energy released by the self-destruction of the four Catastrophe Level Demon Serpents blasted the Star, causing it to break apart.
The Star disintegrated into several fragments, and the largest piece continued onward, its momentum unchecked.
It broke through the clouds, its ever-growing shadow blanketing the center of the swamp!
On the ground.
The Nine-headed Demon Serpent Hydra’s five massive heads, its five pairs of blood-red eyes, blazed with crimson light!
"ROAR!"
It let out a roar.
Its massive body writhed frantically, its several-kilometer-long tail slamming violently against the earth as it tried to burrow underground to escape this judgment from Beyond the Heavens!
But it was too late.
Under the terrifying gravitational pull of the Star, its movements became incredibly sluggish.
Every movement felt like fighting against the weight of the entire world.
It could only watch, helpless.
Watching as the Star fragment, wreathed in Blazing Flame, rapidly grew larger in its pupils!
From the size of a hill, to that of a mountain range!
Finally, it filled its entire field of vision!
Mage Delin’s face was so pale it was completely drained of color.
His once-straight posture was now slightly stooped, as if he were bearing an unimaginable weight.
Summoning a real Star and guiding its descent with such precision...
The effort had pushed him to his absolute limit.
He looked at the Hydra, his eyes devoid of any pity.
He just lifted his hand, the one that had been pointing at the sky.
Then, slowly, he pressed it down.
RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE!
In that instant, the world lost all sound.
Light.
Endless white light devoured everything.
The Star fragment from the cosmic void had finally... crashed into the center of the Jade Swamp!
The world returned to silence.
The all-devouring white light lasted for dozens of seconds before slowly dissipating.
After the blinding light receded, an indescribably terrifying heatwave swept across the entire swamp.
The air distorted from the searing heat, and every breath was like inhaling red-hot blades into the lungs.
Far in the distance, Raylo struggled to open his eyes, which stung from the intense light.
The scene at the center of the swamp left him utterly speechless.
At the edge of his vision was a colossal crater.
The crater’s diameter probably exceeded several kilometers.
Inside the crater, there was no soil, no rock, no char.
There was only a layer of... glass, smooth as a mirror and faintly shimmering with a seven-colored halo.
Wisps of white steam rose from the vitrified ground—the last trace of the moisture from deep within the swamp, now completely evaporated.
’Is it dead?’
Raylo’s heart pounded wildly.
The same thought surfaced in everyone’s mind.
However...
At the edge of the crater, near the deepest, darkest area...
a massive, mangled body lay silently.
It was the Nine-headed Demon Serpent Hydra!
Its body, once several kilometers long, had now shrunk by nearly half. Parts of its flesh had been vaporized by the terrifying heat, revealing charred bones beneath.
Of its original five heads, only three remained.
Two of those were so badly burned that only half remained, with even their skulls exposed—a truly gruesome sight.
But...
It was still alive!
One of the three remaining heads, the one that was relatively intact, suddenly snapped open its enormous, blood-red eye!
A tenacious aura of madness radiated from it.
"ROAR..."
A hoarse cry was squeezed from its scorched throat.
Then, a skin-crawling scene unfolded.
On its ruined, severed necks and its charred body, countless tiny buds of flesh began to squirm and multiply tenaciously once more!
Its remaining Life Force was repairing the horrifying, fatal injuries at a speed visible to the naked eye!
On the other side, the Legends emerged from the spatial fold created by Mage Morpheus.
"Cough... cough cough..."
A fit of violent coughing was heard.
Mage Delin’s face was ashen. He was shaking so violently he could barely stand, supported only by the two Mages beside him.
Summoning a real Star and guiding it here with such precision—the single strike had drained almost all of his Life Force and Magic Power.
His Legend title was "Star," but this was the first time he had truly pulled down a celestial body. His previous "stars" were merely phantom images formed from channeled stellar energy.
This included the battle that made him famous, where he summoned a star to destroy his nemesis’s Duke’s Castle.
But how could the impact of a real Star be limited to destroying a mere castle?
Watching the monster that was beginning to squirm again in the distance, a sense of powerlessness crept into Mage Delin’s clouded eyes.
’I’ve already... done my best.’
The battlefield fell into a deathly silence.
Only the agonized roars from the Hydra’s three mangled heads echoed across the vitrified crater.
Its wounds were mending.
Its aura was slowly recovering.
Just then.
A furious roar, like a clap of thunder, resounded across the entire battlefield!
It wasn’t the Hydra.
It was "Fortress" Hector!